ANNIE Well, I got some of his old books. I thought maybe you'd want ’em.

DEAN Yeah. Sure. Where you at?

ANNIE Bodega Bay. Crow's Nest Inn.

DEAN You working?

ANNIE Always. You guys anywhere nearby?

DEAN Near enough.

ANNIE Cool. Why don't we meet at the Pier Front Restaurant – lunch?

DEAN 1 o’clock?

ANNIE Yeah. Bye.

EXT. – HOUSE – NIGHT

INT. – HOUSE – NIGHT

Two TEENAGERS are kissing on a sofa. The room is lit by candles.

GIRL We shouldn't be here.

BOY Yeah. I know.

CAR – NIGHT

ANNIE is driving. She pulls up to the house.

INT. – HOUSE – NIGHT

The GIRL sits up at the sound of ANNIE’s vehicle.

GIRL Cops?

ANNIE’s car door slams. The TEENAGERS grab flashlights and get up from the sofa.

EXT. – HOUSE – NIGHT

ANNIE walks towards the front door, shining a flashlight.

INT. – HOUSE – NIGHT

The TEENAGERS hurry through the house. Their flashlights flicker and go out. A large MAN is standing in the doorway.

MAN You shouldn't have come here.

The MAN runs towards the TEENAGERS.

CUT TO: ANNIE enters the house, shining a flashlight. She discovers the teenagers’ bodies on the floor. There is blood on their faces and blood pooled underneath them. ANNIE’s flashlight flickers and goes out. The front door slams.

SUPERNATURAL (Title Card)

ACT ONE

INT. – PIER FRONT RESTAURANT – DAY

SAM and DEAN are sitting at a table overlooking the pier. SAM is looking at the menu and DEAN is reading a newspaper.

DEAN Hey, get this. Dick Roman is funding another archaeological dig. Guy moves more dirt than "The Drudge Report."

SAM Well, any – anything on what he's digging for?

DEAN Don't you think I would have led with that?

SAM sighs and looks at his watch.

SAM Annie's not usually this late, is she?

DEAN No, never. She's totally compulsive. I'll try her cell.

SAM You know, uh, you know she and Bobby had a thing, right?

DEAN Yeah. Yeah, I knew that. Really?

SAM Yeah. Kind of a foxhole thing – very Hemingway.

DEAN Huh. She and I kind of went Hemingway this one time, too.

SAM All right, well... that happens.

SAM makes a face.

DEAN What, you too?

SAM Look, it was a while back. We ended up on the same case. She was stressed. I-I-I... I didn't... have a soul.

DEAN That's a lot of foxholes. She's not answering. Well, here's to ghosts that aren't there.

DEAN pours some whiskey from his flask into his coffee mug.

SAM You sound kind of disappointed.

DEAN Ah, it's better this way. I mean, even though I wish we could see him again doesn't mean that we should.

They clink their coffee mugs together and drink.

DEAN Ahh. Are we being stood up?

SAM Yeah, let's hope that's all this is.

The flask rocks slightly on the table. Neither DEAN nor SAM notice.

EXT. – PIER FRONT RESTAURANT – DAY

SAM and DEAN are walking towards their car. DEAN is holding his phone to his ear.

SAM Nothing?

DEAN Straight to voicemail. Something's not right.

SAM What's she doing on Bodega Bay?

DEAN She's working some kind of job. She didn't really say.

DEAN takes out his flask, unscrews the lid and tips it upside down – it’s empty.

DEAN I got to get a refill.

SAM You know what, man? Why don't you, uh, just pack it away for a while? All it does is remind us of him, you know?

DEAN Yeah, I thought about that, but, uh... not yet.

DEAN walks around the car to the driver’s side. BOBBY is sitting in the back seat of the car, but SAM and DEAN don’t appear to see him.

DEAN Let's go check out Annie's hotel room.

INT. – MOTEL – DAY

DEAN is sitting on the bed looking at some of Annie’s research.

SAM These go back years – disappearances never solved.

SAM is at the table looking at more papers.

SAM They stop a few decades back, then pick up again just recently. All teenagers.

DEAN Looks like Annie found a spot a lot of them liked to poke around just before they went missing.

SAM Yeah?

DEAN Yeah. Old Van Ness house.

DEAN gets up to show the information about the house to SAM. BOBBY is now sitting at the table across from SAM, but SAM and DEAN don’t appear to see him.

DEAN It's, uh, cheery.

SAM Well, the police combed the place. They always come up dry.

The curtain next to SAM moves, but SAM and DEAN are both looking in the other direction.

DEAN Yeah, local law. Always on the ball.

BOBBY Guys...

SAM and DEAN don’t hear him.

SAM So, built in 1862 by the Van Ness family...

BOBBY I just made that curtain shimmy.

SAM ...who lost it in the early 1900s.

BOBBY Could you look in the right place at the right time?

SAM Put up for sale a few years back. No takers.

DEAN Probably 'cause it creeps their queso.

BOBBY Balls, this is exhausting.

SAM It's just been sitting there, boarded up, for ages. Oh. Get this. I guess a couple months back, someone put it on one of those, uh, "most haunted houses in America" lists.

DEAN dials a number and holds his phone to his ear. SAM is holding an EMF reader, which is flashing and making noise.

SAM There's a whole lot of something going on.

A phone rings somewhere nearby. DEAN and SAM walk in the direction of the sound and find a phone on the floor.

CUT TO: BOBBY watching the TEENAGERS walk slowly past him. On the stairs, a MAN IN A SUIT is admonishing the LARGE MAN who ran towards the TEENAGERS.

MAN IN A SUIT I know what you did last night, and you know it was forbidden! I don't brook that sort of thing in my home. Don't do it again, Dexter, or there will be consequences.

CUT TO: DEAN and SAM walking through the house. They go up the stairs as BOBBY watches.

DEAN The call to me was the last one she made. So where the hell is she?

ANNIE Bobby?

BOBBY Annie! We've been looking for you.

ANNIE I can't believe you're here.

BOBBY Yeah. I'm a doornail. Bad news here. If you can see me, you are, too.

ACT TWO

INT. – DESERTED HOUSE – NIGHT

ANNIE and BOBBY are sitting on a sofa.

ANNIE Wow. Dead. Ghost. Me. Three words you never want to use in a sentence. I feel like I was drugged.

BOBBY I get it. I figure it was a month before I even knew I was still here. You're doing well.

ANNIE Terrific.

BOBBY So, uh... So, you duck your reaper, too?

ANNIE What? No. I never even saw one. You – Bobby. You ran away from your reaper? On purpose? That's why you're still here? You stupid, crazy old –

BOBBY Hey. I remember a time when you liked how crazy I was.

ANNIE Oh, shut up! I can't believe you. You know what? As a regular ghost with no choice in the matter, screw you.

BOBBY Hey. I got unfinished business here, same as you.

ANNIE Uh-huh. And there's my unfinished business right now.

The TEENAGERS are walking slowly through the room.

ANNIE Kids! Hello? You're dead.

BOBBY Well, they're not the brightest bulbs on the string.

ANNIE I came in, they were roadkill. Then this big guy charges me. And now I'm... Crap. Is there a fun aspect to this?

BOBBY Not really. And so far, I can't crack the code on any of it. I mean, I've seen poltergeists bench a piano as a warm-up. I tried to help the boys out once by knocking a book off the table and blacked out for two weeks.

ANNIE Haskel... you're right. We are novices, so, could you do me a solid and show me how to move that chair? It's one stupid chair.

HASKEL CRANE Baby steps, gorgeous. Try this first.

HASKEL CRANE pushes a candle across the bar towards ANNIE. She tries to grab it, but her hand passes straight through. BOBBY tries and the same thing happens.

HASKEL CRANE You're angsting at it. You know what getting frustrated will get you? [Chuckles] Nothing. You've got two ways to move things. What I did – which you obviously must – is calm yourself.

BOBBY You're saying we should move crap with the power of Zen.

HASKEL CRANE I'm telling you to let go of all that. Calmly tell the thing what to do.

BOBBY reaches a hand towards the candle.

HASKEL CRANE You're getting tense.

BOBBY You're not helpful.

BOBBY tries to grab the candle, but his hand passes through it again.

BOBBY What's option two? You said there were two ways.

HASKEL CRANE Oh, you could use explosive anger and pure, red-hot rage, but that's impossible to manufacture. Sorry.

ANNIE Makes sense. Like poltergeists – vengeful spirits.

BOBBY I am vengeful. You think I don't have red-hot rage?

HASKEL CRANE I think you're a sad excuse for one of us, and I'm unsurprised that you're failing. Take my help or don't, but if you want to move a flea, surrender.

BOBBY For the record, I hated that Swayze flick – romantic bullcrap.

BOBBY reaches a hand towards the candle again. A woman screams. BOBBY and ANNIE turn and see that the screaming is coming from one of the ghosts in the room. The ghost then rushes towards them, before turning into dust and vanishing.

BOBBY What in cold hell was that?

HASKEL CRANE That's you one day. That's all of us. We deteriorate at different rates – some sooner, some later. And eventually all... like that.

BOBBY Well, now you know how all the ghosts who have ever tried to talk to us feel. You just have to wait until they find you.

ANNIE But I don't even know where I'm at. And I've searched every room five times. No wonder they're walking away.

BOBBY Is it me, or am I being checked out?

A female GHOST in a red dress is looking at BOBBY and ANNIE.

ANNIE No, stud. I'm being checked out.

ANNIE and BOBBY walk over to the GHOST.

ANNIE Can I help you?

GHOST I'm Victoria.

ANNIE Annie.

VICTORIA I saw you here the other day. I know the kind of work you do. Did.

ANNIE Hey, I'm still doing it. I mean, other-dimensionally speaking.

BOBBY Atta girl.

ANNIE Wait. Your voice. You're the one on my phone.

VICTORIA When you were here, I was able to call out to you that way.

ANNIE Ah, spectral voice transference.

BOBBY Right. Ghost juju.

ANNIE Sure. So... W-what exactly did you mean when you said, "free me"? Victoria, free you from what?

BOBBY vanishes and VICTORIA gasps.

ANNIE Bobby!

CAR – NIGHT

DEAN and SAM are sitting in the car outside the deserted house.

DEAN Where'd Annie get her intel? Do we know?

DEAN drinks from the flask. BOBBY is in the back seat.

BOBBY Stupid flask.

SAM Bodega Bay Heritage Society.

SAM holds up a Bodega Bay Heritage Society booklet.

BOBBY Boys, come on. All the action's back in the pool. Let's go!

DEAN starts the engine.

BOBBY Damn it.

INT – BODEGA BAY HERITAGE SOCIETY – NIGHT

We see a large black-and-white photograph of the Van Ness house and information about early residents of Bodega Bay.

HISTORIAN The house dates back to the mid-19th century. Miles Van Ness made his fortune in the gold rush, eventually settling his family in Bodega Bay.

SAM Anything...unusual ever happen in the house?

HISTORIAN Oh, over the course of a century, things are going to happen in a house.

BOBBY is looking at a hanging lamp.

BOBBY "Tell it what to do."

HISTORIAN Some locals swear it's haunted.

BOBBY takes a deep breath and tries to touch the lamp with a finger.

BOBBY Move.

BOBBY’s finger passes right through the lamp.

HISTORIAN Every village has its idiots.

DEAN We only want the real scoop, of course.

BOBBY Balls!

HISTORIAN Whitman Van Ness. Son and heir. Handsome, charming, dogged by tragedy all his life. He lost the family fortune, then the house. It became a bordello. He lived in isolation till his death at age 40.

BOBBY He's still there.

DEAN Who's the, uh, the bruiser there?

The HISTORIAN points to a photograph of DEXTER standing next to VAN NESS.

HISTORIAN Dexter O'Connell. A convict. An extremely violent man.

BOBBY He's there, too.

HISTORIAN Mr. Van Ness was socially progressive and took pity on him. He worked as grounds keeper. Dexter was convicted for murdering Whitman's fiancée on the eve of their wedding. Another calamitous event in the poor man's life.

SAM Hmm.

DEAN Well, thank you.

HISTORIAN The house is popular this week.

SAM What do you mean?

HISTORIAN A lady came by the other day asking all sorts of questions.

DEAN Uh, 30s, red hair, good-looking?

HISTORIAN Mm. I gave her the same advice I'll give to you. Stay away from the place. It's extremely unsafe.

SAM and DEAN nod and leave.

CUT TO: BOBBY trying unsuccessfully to move coins on a table.

INT – MOTEL – NIGHT

BOBBY looks exasperated.

SAM So, besides Whitman's fiancée…

SAM is reading a photocopy of a newspaper near the open bathroom door. The shower is running.

SAM …Dexter O'Connell was also convicted of killing a bunch of hookers who worked at the brothel.

The newspaper headline reads “Woman slain on eve of wedding was fiancee of Whitman Van Ness.”

SAM He escaped before they could hang him. But then he returned to the house, where he was found shot to death. Why would he escape and then go right back to the house where he got arrested?

BOBBY tries again to move a coin.

DEAN [from the shower] I don't know. Add that to a list of things don't know.

SAM So what's the next move?

BOBBY You know, if I could, I'd be getting old waiting on you two to figure this out.

DEAN partly opens the shower curtain and grabs a towel, then closes the curtain again. BOBBY is looking at the steamed-up bathroom mirror.

BOBBY All right, now. I can kill werewolves, fix a Pinto, and bake cornbread. I will be damned if I can't get Zen.

EXT. – VAN NESS HOUSE – NIGHT

Two TEENAGE BOYS are standing outside the house. One holds a video camera and is recording himself.

DEAN and SAM get into their car. BOBBY and ANNIE watch from the window. VAN NESS is in the back seat.

BOBBY Aw, hell no.

DEAN, SAM and VAN NESS drive away.

ACT FOUR

EXT. – VAN NESS HOUSE – NIGHT

INT. – VAN NESS HOUSE – NIGHT

BOBBY and ANNIE are walking up the stairs.

BOBBY If I hadn't stashed that flask here, I'd still be glued to Sam and Dean. Real clever.

ANNIE Actually was.

BOBBY Son of a bitch. I figured our one ace was that bastard Whitman couldn't leave the house either.

ANNIE Must have pulled a number like you and the flask. Probably planted something on the boys.

BOBBY Terrific.

ANNIE Hey, listen, sweetie – you could beat yourself up all day about this, or we could take advantage of the fact that Whitman's gone, do what we're supposed to do. Let's go figure this out. Coming, Robert?

ANNIE and BOBBY walk down a hallway and stand in front of a door.

BOBBY Well, we searched everywhere else.

ANNIE I'm telling you, Whitman guards his room like Fort Knox.

ANNIE and BOBBY walk through the door into a sitting room. There is a fire burning in the fireplace.

BOBBY Last time I checked, ghosts didn't get cold.

A skeleton and the remains of a red dress are in the fire.

ANNIE Yeah. That's Victoria. That is how he took her out. But where did he get her corpse?

BOBBY Well, you said he dragged those two dead kids away. Where'd he take them?

ANNIE Yeah, I don't know. I couldn't risk following him.

BOBBY What else did you say this place was, other than a whorehouse?

ANNIE It was a lot of things. It was a boarding house, a school... a speakeasy.

BOBBY Yeah, well, thing about speakeasies – hell of a lot to hide.

BOBBY and ANNIE search the room. BOBBY pulls the lever that VAN NESS used to open the bookcase, and it swings open.

BOBBY I still got it.

BOBBY and ANNIE enter the room behind the bookcase. It contains skeletons and corpses in various stages of decomposition, ANNIE’s body and the TEENAGE BOYS’ bodies. ANNIE looks stricken upon seeing her body.

BOBBY Well, this pretty much tells the story, don't it? You know, you and me – we burned our fair share of bones, sent a lot of ghosts packing.

ANNIE It's a little different when you're on the receiving end. So, uh... what do you think happens to 'em – Heaven, Hell, or... none of the above?

BOBBY I don't know. Just... gone, most likely.

ANNIE Yeah, that's what I think, too. That's what I want. I want a hunter's funeral. Oh, come on. It's better than this – stuck to this house, somewhere between existing and not. No, I'm... ready for some peace. Wasn't much of a life. It was lonely, what we do.

BOBBY Yeah, well, the life I had is the one I picked.

ANNIE Yeah, but you had the boys. All I had was work. It's gone now.

BOBBY Yeah, well, I ain't done.

ANNIE Okay, fine, but I am. You're stronger than I am now, Bobby, so, uh, you got to do this for me.

CAR – NIGHT

DEAN is driving while SAM is online.

SAM All right. Here we go – cemetery, edge of town. The Van Ness family has its own mausoleum.

DEAN All right, we light up the bastard and finish him off.

The car accelerates from about 50 miles an hour to about 80.

SAM Take it easy. We'll get there.

DEAN Uh, that's not me.

DEAN struggles to hold onto the steering wheel as it moves. VAN NESS appears next to DEAN and tries to turn the wheel, causing the car to swerve. DEAN manages to bring the car to a stop and he and SAM get out.

EXT. – STREET – NIGHT

SAM Why's he with us?!

DEAN I don't know. There's got to be something on us!

DEAN and SAM pat down their clothing.

SAM Hey, hey.

SAM takes out the key that VAN NESS put in his jacket pocket. VAN NESS appears behind SAM and plunges a hand into his back.

SAM Ugh!

DEAN Sam!

DEAN grabs the key from SAM, tosses it onto the ground and shoots it. VAN NESS vanishes in a cloud of dust. SAM gasps and DEAN puts out a hand to steady him.

SAM Did that do it? Did that get rid of him?

DEAN I don't know. I got a bad idea we just snapped him back to his favorite house.

SAM Where Annie's a sitting duck.

DEAN We got to find those bones. Come on.

INT. – VAN NESS HOUSE – NIGHT

BOBBY Let's build up the fire. We can put some of these poor bastards to rest, at least.

EXT. – CEMETERY – NIGHT

DEAN and SAM are walking through the cemetery with flashlights. They find the Van Ness mausoleum.

INT. – VAN NESS HOUSE – NIGHT

VAN NESS runs up the stairs. BOBBY and ANNIE are standing in front of the fireplace in VAN NESS’ room.

BOBBY Well, let's get to cremating. We ain't got all day.

VAN NESS strides down the hallway and walks through the door to his room. BOBBY and ANNIE are hiding around a corner. When VAN NESS looks around the corner, they are gone.

INT. – VAN NESS MAUSOLEUM – NIGHT

DEAN uses a hammer and chisel on a plaque that reads “Whitman Van Ness – October 16th 1895 - November 14th 1935”.

INT. – VAN NESS HOUSE – NIGHT

BOBBY and ANNIE hurry down the stairs to the ground floor. VAN NESS appears in front of them.

VAN NESS Enjoy the view from my room? Planning to thin out the population? Is this how you repay my hospitality?!

VAN NESS plunges a hand into BOBBY’s chest. BOBBY starts to burn up in white light, which also appears in VAN NESS’ eyes.

DEAN and SAM enter the house. ANNIE is no longer visible next to BOBBY.

BOBBY Hi, boys.

DEAN and SAM stare at BOBBY.

DEAN Bobby?

BOBBY Wait. You can see me?

ACT FIVE

INT. – VAN NESS HOUSE – NIGHT

DEAN and SAM continue to stare at BOBBY, who is now standing.

BOBBY You're staring, you know. Annie's here, too, by the way.

DEAN Hi, Annie.

SAM H-hi, Annie.

ANNIE is now visible again, standing behind BOBBY.

ANNIE Hi, guys.

BOBBY points a thumb in ANNIE’s direction. SAM and DEAN look around, but can’t see her.

BOBBY She says you both look uglier than she remembered.

ANNIE hits BOBBY lightly on the back. The camera shifts to SAM and DEAN, and when it returns to BOBBY, ANNIE is no longer visible beside him.

SAM Bobby, h-how'd you stay here?

BOBBY Yeah, well, uh...

BOBBY walks to the drawer and takes out the flask. He tosses it to DEAN.

BOBBY Suck on that, Swayze.

SAM That's why you never answered me. I tried calling you – the, uh, talking board, the works – but I was always alone. Dean always had that thing in his pocket. That's why the EMF only went off half the time. We thought we were going crazy.

DEAN S-so, what happened? Did you get stuck or – or what?

BOBBY I wanted to stay.

DEAN Bobby.

BOBBY I need to help.

SAM Not if it means you have to... be this.

BOBBY Well, life wasn't comfy. Why should death be? Now, come on.

ANNIE is visible behind BOBBY again.

BOBBY Annie and I found all the bodies. Let's put 'em to rest. And keep my damn flask away from the fire... obviously.

BOBBY heads for the stairs. ANNIE is no longer visible.

BOBBY Well, you coming?

EXT. – VAN NESS HOUSE – NIGHT

DEAN and SAM are putting their things in the trunk of the car. BOBBY looks at the front door of the house and then walks over to them.

BOBBY I'll miss her.

DEAN Me too.

SAM Yeah.

BOBBY Well, you didn't know her like I did.

DEAN laughs briefly and SAM clears his throat.

DEAN Well, uh… [He takes out the flask.] Here's to Annie. She got the hunter's funeral she wanted. [He takes a drink.] Kind of like the one we thought we gave you.

SAM Dean.

DEAN What were you thinking, Bobby? You could be in Heaven right now, drinking beer at Harvelle's, not – not stuck…

BOBBY Stuck here with you? We still have work to do. I just thought that was kind of important, Dean.

DEAN It's not right, and you know that.

BOBBY Sorry. You're right. What was I thinking?

BOBBY vanishes. DEAN and SAM look at each other and DEAN tosses the flask into the trunk.

CAR – NIGHT

SAM So, what do you think we should do?

DEAN We did what we should do. Now I don't know.

SAM I mean, do you think it's possible we could – I don't know – make it all work somehow?

DEAN I have no idea. Maybe. I've never heard of it. But you know what I do know? It ain't the natural order of things. Everything is supposed to end. You know, he was supposed… And now... What are the odds this ends well?